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OpenAI's first hardware is a screenless smart speaker that moves, per Bloomberg
The mobile AI companion, built with ex-Apple engineers, is pitched as a physical manifestation of ChatGPT for the home.
OpenAI plans a ChatGPT smart speaker for 2027, its first major device
The screenless, camera-equipped speaker joins roughly five hardware products OpenAI is building with Jony Ive after its $6.5B acquisition of io Products.
Hinge founder Justin McLeod raises $18M for AI dating service Overtone
Match Group is backing its former Hinge CEO's new voice-forward matchmaking startup, which promises curated intros over swiping.
Meta's Mosseri says AI token budgets may soon be capped per engineer
Instagram head says a strong engineer's AI burn rate could match their salary within one to two years, forcing per-head caps.
US official says 'very few' Nvidia H200 chips have shipped to China
Commerce's Jeffery Kessler confirms H200 licenses are being issued, but volumes to China and Hong Kong remain tiny under a 25% revenue cut to Washington.
Reflection signs $1B compute deal with Nebius for Nvidia chips
The open-weight model startup, valued at $8B, adds Nebius capacity weeks after locking in SpaceX compute access.
SoftBank's Masayoshi Son says AI will need $5 trillion a year by 2040
The SoftBank founder dismissed bubble talk, arguing annual AI capital requirements will scale into the trillions within 15 years.
South Korea forecasts 2026 growth at 5-year high on AI chip demand
Seoul projects 2.6% GDP growth in 2026, up from 2.2% in 2025, as memory-chip orders from AI data-center buildouts drive exports.
PixVerse raises $439M at $2B valuation, betting video generation is a two-horse race
The Singapore startup pulled Alibaba into its Series C extension and now claims 150 million registered users on its consumer app.
Uber pushes into hotels and AV data, tells partners it won't chase L4 autonomy
Chief product officer Sachin Kansal says Uber One hit 51M members and AV Labs will gather millions of miles of driving data for partners.
Nadella warns AI buyers 'pay twice' — with cash and proprietary data
Microsoft's CEO says enterprises are teaching OpenAI and Anthropic their trade secrets, and pitches open source and cloud-hosted models as the fix.
Anthropic localizes Claude pricing in India, its second-largest market
Rupee pricing lands in India, which drives 5.8% of global Claude usage — but UPI payments still aren't supported.
Meta doubles Hyperion data center to 5GW, pushing spend past $50B
Louisiana's 20-year sales tax exemption helped land the buildout, now nearly double the $27B figure Meta cited in October.
Helsing raises $1.8B at $18B valuation, cementing European defense-AI lead
The Munich drone and autonomy startup, already supplying HX-2 drones to Ukraine, secured backing from JPMorgan, Lightspeed and Iconiq.
OpenAI hires a product manager for families as ChatGPT ages up
The share of ChatGPT users 35 and older hit 31% in Q2, up from 26% a year earlier, and OpenAI wants a household product.
SK Hynix CEO warns 2027 will bring the worst memory shortage on record
The chipmaker says AI-driven demand for HBM and DRAM will outstrip supply beyond 2030, tightening a market already running hot.
Hugging Face's Delangue: half the Fortune 500 now runs on open source AI
The CEO argues frontier API costs push companies to open models as they scale, and warns a handful of firms could otherwise control everything.
SK Hynix raises $26.5B in largest-ever foreign IPO on US markets
The Nvidia HBM supplier priced above Seoul, opened 14% higher, and eclipsed Alibaba's 2014 record as Washington pushes for US fabs.
Sunrun to pay customers to host AI compute nodes in their homes
The solar company is piloting a distributed AI compute network across its 1.1 million customers, betting on backyard batteries instead of megasite data centers.
Microsoft's carbon emissions rose 25% in 2025 as AI data centers expanded
The company's 2026 sustainability report says emissions hit 34M metric tons and warns sustainability solutions can't keep pace with AI demand.
OpenAI says GPT-5.6 is the 'preferred model' for Microsoft 365 Copilot
The declaration lands days after reports that Microsoft was quietly swapping in its own MAI models to power Word and Excel.
Lyzr's AI agent ran its own $100M Series B fundraise
SivaClaw fielded 130+ investors and drafted memos while Lyzr closed a $500M valuation without leaving Jersey City.
Fidji Simo steps down as OpenAI's applications chief, citing chronic illness
Simo will move to a part-time advisor role after a three-month medical leave, leaving Sam Altman without his designated No. 2 ahead of a 2027 IPO.
Sequoia's David Cahn: AI industry needs $3T in revenue to justify 2026 buildout
Infrastructure spend hits $1.5T next year while Anthropic runs at $60B ARR and OpenAI at $20B — the payback math still doesn't close.
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